THE NEW TURKEY.

Otago Witness, Issue 3624, 28 August 1923, Page 20

THE NEW TURKEY.

RESERVE CLASSES CALLED TO COLOURS. PARIS, August 20. ine newspaper L’lntransigeant’s Angora correspondent says that the Turkish Government has called to the Colours the 1896 to 1902 classes. THE PAYMENT TO BRITAIN. LONDON, August 22. Mi’ Baldwin, in a written answer to a question asked in the House of Commons, admits that the sums due from Turkey under the Lausanne Treaty are only suffi®*®nt to P a y a percentage of the claims. The Government strongly believed that it would be futile to obtain from Turkey promises of the payment of large sums which she could not honour. The experience with Austria and Germany showed conclusively that a bird in the ‘hand was worth any number in the bush. NEW SECRETARIAL APPOINTMENT. LONDON, August 22. Colonel Harold Wood, who served as an intelligence officer in the Anzac Corps in 1915, and as a General Staff Officer on the Dardanelles, has been appointed by the Department of Overseas Trade as its secretary to Turkey. LAUSANNE TREATY. CONSTANTINOPLE, August 22. The debate has opened in the Angora Assembly on the ratification of the Lausanne Treaty. There is considerable criticism in spite of the general approval J reaty. A Thracian deputy said that the Treaty prepared a dangerous future for other generations and perhaps even for the present one. “We have not obtained even our 1914 frontiers,” he said. “The future o,f Adrianople is very hazardous. Western statesmen, by the situation which they have created in Thrace, have constituted a pretext for quarrels between Turkey, Bulgaria, -and Greece.” The main feature of the debate was hostility towards France. ALLIED EVACUATION COMMENCES. CONSTANTINOPLE, August 24. The Angora Assembly has ratified the Lausanne Treaty by 215 votes to 20. The Allied Commissioners immediately informed the Turks that the Allied evacuation would commence to-morrow. August 25. The first three transports have left with the evacuating British troops, following on the ratification of the peace treaty. ° COMMERCIAL TREATY WITH ALLIES. ROME, August 24. The Messagero learns that an important financial and economic agreement -was concluded in Paris recently between Italy, Britain, and France regarding Asia Minor, virtually replacing the old Tripartite accord. The new agreement provides for the construction of a vast railroad system, radiating from Panderma and branching east and west across the most fertile ter” ritories. The work has been allotted in shares to industrial and financial groiuin each country. The agreement affords vast possibilities for Italian capital and labour in a nearly depopulated countrv Turkey’s approval of the plan is practically assured